The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-03-17
MORE CONFIRMATION
OF THE BALTIMORE IS ONO SALE,
Tho Negotiations Going on Quietly, hut tho
Consummation Will Not be Reached for
same Days-The Reasons why a
unsty Saie Has Not Doon Made,

known to be In the confidence Of Alfred
sully, tonight made the following state.
ment: "The Baltimore & Ohio Is in abey.
ance. There are really no new devel.
oppents and probably will not be for some
time. Such trsnsaction as the one that
has been given so much publicity cannot be
carried through in day or week, and Il
suddenly contaminated would, perhaps,
have bad effect upon securities generally
In tho unsettled condition OF the market.
Largo properties cannot be acquired with.
out investigation into their condition, and
all the surrounding circumstances, and It
is not TO De supposed that any transaction
OF this nature could differ from the natu.
raj laws Of business. II anything ia done
in this matter 1t will take time to carry Il
out and there cannot be any result reached
for the present. 5.@"~"'Y, ~ :
THE baltimore 4 Ohio property by rea.
son Of its geographical position and It's
connectlonH is valuable, and there are, no
doubt, many who would be glad enough
to control it. But, as Mr.. Brice has
already stated, 1t is not at all likely that
MIR: Garrett would make any arrangement
with any, person or parties looking to a
sale of the Baltimore & Ohio, unless 1t
meant combination or a close alliance
with the Terminal Company's system OF
southern roads. Mr.. Garrett is a large
real estate owner in Baltimore, he Ia in.
terested in building up Baltimore, and
Whatever he may do will be in the inter-
est Of that town." gf"I ~
WALL sTREET GOSSIP
Two fnanciers who are attracting good
deal Of attention just now in Wall street,
sign their names Henry S. Ives and G. s.
staynor. Mr.. Ives is the enterprisinp
gentleman who, two or three years ago.
shook up. the Stock Exchange one fine
morning by showing how to pet up a cor
ner In Mutual Union Telegraph stock. He
ID very wicked person, according to two
or three official votes OF the Stock E1-
change governors; but Mr.. Ives has
seemed to prosper fairly we'll for all that.
Now the financial gossips are alleging
that he and his friend Staynor are to turn
up as the head Of new syndicate control
ling the Baltimore 4 Ohio Railroad Com
pany. Mr.. Stsynor and MI. Ives have
been in Baltimore and Washington dur
ing the last three or four days in confer
ence with President Garrett, and some
other influential Directors of the Balti-
more q Ohio Company. Both gentlemen
are mysterious asto the einwardness their
recent activity here and about Mr., Gar
rett's home. They may be able to talk.
they say, lin tho course Of few days."
It IS IN the meantime openly hinted
that the ives-staynor syndicate is really
put another name for Jay Gould. Alfred
sully,,s connection with the same COM
bination is suggested from pretty good
sources.
Russell Sage and Jay Gould were in
consultation for long time last night,
anu when MIR. Sage braved the clustering
wind on his journey home he displayed
smile that Fifth avenue had good rea-
son to be proud of. Mr.. Gould said to
callers yesterday that he was without any
financial interest whatever in the Balti.
more and Ohio deal; be was convinced.
though, he said, that anybody who paid
20O Tor MIR. CARROTS stock wouldn't have
to live long to get a chance to do some re-.
penting.
The Pennsylvania Railway people are
still open to the suspicion of having closer
relations to the deal than they are willing
TO confess. AS suggested in the Times
yesterday, the financial powers who fig.
ured conspicuously in the West Shore
settlement have had hand in the nego-
tlatlons that are pending, and their in.
terests this time are with the Pennsylvania
Company. There were emphatic protesta-
tions against this in Wall street yesterday,
but protestations are not the most power.
iul Or convincing things in the world when
Wall street has big and mysterious deal
going on. One OF Mr.. Sully's intimates
yesterday declared that that gentleman
was still in good spirits and "sure to &C.
complish just what he started out for,"